Proposing ways to make life better for everyone, one kind act at a time, "A Year of Living Kindly" is an optimistic self-help work. Donna Cameron’s self-help book "A Year of Living Kindly" is filled with sage advice on living a kinder... Read More

Beneath a New Jersey sky, a young girl with the deck stacked against her falls in love with the weather. Years later, feeling an odd fit with her PhD program at MIT, she heads north to try her hand at television meteorology, whirling... Read More

In tammy lynne stoner’s quietly powerful "Sugar Land", Dara is in love with a woman—her best friend, Rhodie. But that is a sin in 1923 in Texas, and it’s one that Dara decides to root out of herself by any means possible. That... Read More

Haley Stewart’s compelling "The Grace of Enough" follows the author’s family as they make the switch to living with less stuff and more life. Stewart and her husband, who were working hard to maintain a lifestyle that was not... Read More

Delving into fractured families, hoarded secrets, and the cultural and personal negotiations at the heart of the Asian American experience, May-lee Chai’s "Useful Phrases for Immigrants" is distinguished by writing as elegant and... Read More

In Barbara Stark-Nemon’s "Hard Cider", a midlife desire to pursue a dream comes to literal fruition—but not without persistence, resistance, and research. Abbie Rose Stone is a wife of thirty years, a mother, and a true lover of the... Read More

Narrated as a harrowing memory retold to an inquisitive granddaughter, Hanna’s story begins in 1939. Hanna and her family live in a remote village in Soviet-occupied Ukraine. Anti-Semitism is a constant issue, but it does little to... Read More

"Vic City Express" tackles the migrant crisis in Greece with an unusual perspective. A traveler to Athens endures a racially charged diatribe from a fellow train passenger who decries the influx of foreigners in Vic City, the working... Read More